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Eadweard Muybridge
Took the first the first successful photographs of motion. He studied photography for most of his life and was able to, by using his amazing photographing skills, distinguish and show things that the human can't see due to the object or organism moving too fast. -
Vaudville
Small theaters that featured short dramatic skits, comedy routines, and song and dance numbers. As the 1900s came upon them, vaudville expanded and became known as nickelodeons. -
Etienne Marey
Created a camera in the shape of a gun that could take 12 pictures per second. He was a French scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer. -
Kodak Camera
Invented by George Eastman as the basis of the invention of motion picture film. It was used by aerly film makers including Thomas Edison. -
peephole kinetoscope
Built by Thomas Edison, allowed 1 audience at a time. Shows a series of pictures. Thomas created it for 1 audience because he thought he could make more money forcing people to pay 1 at a time to watch. -
Thomas Edison's kinetophone
Various inventors attempted to unite sight and sound through "talking" motion pictures. Edison and his comapany had been experimenting with this and he offered a Kinetophones--Kinetoscopes with phonographs inside their cabinets. -
Cinematographe
The Lumiere brothers built a projector that could show motion pictures on a screen for an audience. Edison had already built a projector at this time but decided to wait to reveal it instead. -
Edwin Porter
He was a employee of Thomas Edison when he created the first U.S. narrative film called The Great Train Robbery. Unlike the ohter tradirional movies at this time that lasted 30-60 seconds, The Great Train Robbery lasted 12 minutes. -
First Movie Theater
The first theater that was made exclusively for motion pictures was called the Nickelodeon. The name came from the admission only being a nickel. -
The first animated cartoon
The first animated cartoon was called Fantasgamorie and it composed of 700 hundred drawings that were illuminated over a glass plate. -
MPPC
Thomas Edison formed the Motion Pictures Patents Company (MPPC). He led several companies to control everything from prduction of raw film stock, equipment, film distribution and exhibition. -
Photoplay
Was one of the first American film fan magazine. Was made by Mcfadden in Chicago.